Re: Package Tracking

["Roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you could do something like that if you tracked it through known
gateways (like a toll road) but to have something that uses GPS to send
signals to track itself would be a little too pricey for most packages I
suspect.
"Will" <westes-usc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of a package tracking device/service that would use
> something similar to pager technology so that a package in transit could
> send a heartbeat every 15 to 30 minutes to the paging network, and the
> vendor providing the service could use the location of the receiving tower
> to give an approximate location for the package?   Notifications could be
> sent to the package sender or receiver then by e-mail every time the
> location changes.
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> Will
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